writing is hard

More direct source of concern

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I will regret this and shouldn't make wheels at 2am but

I need to suck you off until you’re groaning like a beached whale 🫣

truly it's crazy that Microsoft acquired Activision-Blizzard in 2022 for like $70 billion. and at the time swathes of critics were like, this is a terrible move, it's going to consolidate the video game industry like crazy, Microsoft already has so much power, this is just going to make it worse. If they don't make that money back-- and $70 billion is an INSANE amount to make back-- they're just going to end up shutting down the hundreds and hundreds of studios they spent that money to acquire. And regulatory bodies in the EU and the USA looked into this, debated whether to stop the merger, but Microsoft went 'we'll make sure Call of Duty gets released on Playstation too', like this is the Only Gaming Franchise That Matters, and the judges were like 🤷 that's alright then.

ATTENTION!

i had the best human interaction of all time last night. i was sitting at a bar eating an appetizer and this guy comes up to order a drink and stares at my food and comments how good it looks. when i am drunk i use the word bitch like it is a comma, i plug it into any space in a sentence possible. so naturally the first thing i say to this stranger is, “go ahead and take one, bitch.”

writing tip: searching "[place of origin]ish names" will get you a lot of stuff and nonsense made up by baby bloggers.

I feel like I'm constantly shilling for them but BehindTheName.com, the only baby name site that doesn't feel like it's run by mommy bloggers, includes census-based graphs for dozens of countries/regions (though not all of them go back very far yet)

Those are the graphs for Samuel. They only have 1 year's data for Moldova right now, so that's why it's a straight line. Similarly, they only have 2 years for Mexico right now. The US goes back to 1880. I'm not sure how much of that is publicly available/translated records and how much of it is that it's like 1 or 2 guys maintaining a website of 27000 names and a finite amount of time to format and upload.

You can't advertise BehindTheName for writers without mentioning the advanced search! You can search names based on cultural origin and usage, gender (including unisex), meaning, and even things like meter and number of syllables, or famous namesakes (you can also see a list of famous namesakes on every name's page, along with meaning, history, related names, alternate spellings in different languages, the above popularity graphs, and more).

extremely underrated subgenre of tumblr post: when someone makes a general statement about something, and another person offers a counter-statement that's just completely nonsensical, and the OP just agrees instantly even if it makes no sense at all